This has got me completely stumped.
I bought a new motherboard, CPU, case w/ PSU, video card and RAM for my brother:
I've been on Skype literally for about 6 hours trying to get Windows installed and cannot get to the bottom of it at all.
The motherboard has one IDE channel. I have tried two different IDE drives with the same results. There are two IDE devices: one HDD and a DVD-RW drive. We've tried different IDE cables and tried both master/slave for HDD/DVD-RW and cable select.
I boot the XP Pro CD-ROM (we've also tried three different disks) and go through the set-up procedure. I start by deleting the existing partition, then create a new partition to fill the drive, then format the new partition with NTFS. All the setup files copy across fine, then the usual message to reboot in 15 seconds. And that's as far as it gets. Upon reboot, the HDD WILL NOT BOOT. I've tried having the HDD as the first boot device; I've tried hitting F8 to load the boot menu and still can't get the HDD to boot.
I've gone into the recovery console and done fixmbr, fixboot, chkdsk /r and bootcfg /rebuild. All had positive results, including bootcfg /rebuild, which recognised the Windows install. So all the setup files are on the drive, it just won't boot.
I've tried changing all sorts of BIOS settings, even changing the memory voltage from auto to 1.8v. Still with no joy.
If I leave it long enough the message comes up Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter otherwise there's a flashing cursor in the top left of the monitor.
I'm really totally utterly and completely out of ideas. Any suggestions?
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I bought a new motherboard, CPU, case w/ PSU, video card and RAM for my brother:
- ASUS M2N-SLI
- AMD AM2 3800+
- 2 x 512 MB DDR667 Crucual RAM
- Antec SLK1650 w/ 350w PSU
- Asus GF7300GS 256Mb PCI-E video card
I've been on Skype literally for about 6 hours trying to get Windows installed and cannot get to the bottom of it at all.
The motherboard has one IDE channel. I have tried two different IDE drives with the same results. There are two IDE devices: one HDD and a DVD-RW drive. We've tried different IDE cables and tried both master/slave for HDD/DVD-RW and cable select.
I boot the XP Pro CD-ROM (we've also tried three different disks) and go through the set-up procedure. I start by deleting the existing partition, then create a new partition to fill the drive, then format the new partition with NTFS. All the setup files copy across fine, then the usual message to reboot in 15 seconds. And that's as far as it gets. Upon reboot, the HDD WILL NOT BOOT. I've tried having the HDD as the first boot device; I've tried hitting F8 to load the boot menu and still can't get the HDD to boot.
I've gone into the recovery console and done fixmbr, fixboot, chkdsk /r and bootcfg /rebuild. All had positive results, including bootcfg /rebuild, which recognised the Windows install. So all the setup files are on the drive, it just won't boot.
I've tried changing all sorts of BIOS settings, even changing the memory voltage from auto to 1.8v. Still with no joy.
If I leave it long enough the message comes up Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter otherwise there's a flashing cursor in the top left of the monitor.
I'm really totally utterly and completely out of ideas. Any suggestions?
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